Delicious Listening

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A Memoir

By: Ina Garten
Narrated by: Ina Garten
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

“What a treat! I loved hearing Ina tell her life story in this entertaining memoir. She is so wise, inspiring, and fun! Sprinkled with business insights and personal revelations, it drew me right in. Highly recommend! Read more

What I Ate in One Year

(and related thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Delightful book about the adventures food can lead to. Read more

The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

By: Padma Lakshmi & Jaya Saxena
Narrated by: Eunice Wong, Soneela Nankani, Ali Nasser, Cary Hite, Chanté McCormick & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we... Read more

Wild Chocolate

Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul

By: Rowan Jacobsen
Narrated by: Sam Rushton
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

“Chocolate is an adventure into the amazons and beyond all for the sake of understanding and eating delicious chocolate. What a delicious ride. I'll never scoff at a $15 chocolate bar again and I'm excited to bring these bean-to-bar chocolates to our culinary bookstore. This book will have you rethinking every Hershey bar you put into your basket. Read more

The Bookshop

A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss
Narrated by: Jay Myers
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

“A history of American bookstores and their sometimes-eccentric owners. A fascinating listen that will have you wanting to visit bookstores across the country, in the past and in the present. Read more

The Editor

How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An Economist Best Book of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024

Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath—finally gets her due in this “surprising, granular, luminous, and... Read more

Sweet Land of Liberty

A History of America in 11 Pies

By: Rossi Anastopoulo
Narrated by: Beth Hicks
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America

From pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving to apple pie on the Fourth of July, nearly every American shares a certain nostalgia for a simple circle of crust and filling. But for centuries, pie has been a malleable icon, equally enjoyed at the table and coopted for social and political purposes.... Read more

The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Kiiri Sandy
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

“This popular food writer has applied her wonderful narrative skills to cook up a delicious, warm, creamy novel that’s perfectly seasoned with fun and fashion. (And by the way, it’s in Paris, what’s not to like???) Savor it like a four-course meal! A delightful read. Read more

Bite by Bite

Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or... Read more

Butter

A Novel of Food and Murder

By: Asako Yuzuki
Narrated by: Hanako Footman
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true storyThere are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she... Read more

The New Breadline

Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jean-Martin Bauer
Narrated by: Jean-Martin Bauer
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps we can take to change course.

"This book should be required reading for the entire human race."
... Read more

Cold Kitchen

A Year of Culinary Travels

By: Caroline Eden
Narrated by: Caroline Eden
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Cold Kitchen written and read by Caroline Eden.

A Financial Times and Observer "best summer read"

'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary. Offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways back into other times, other lives... Read more

Chop Fry Watch Learn

Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

By: Michelle T. King
Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother's copies of Fu Pei-mei's Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the... Read more

Dusty Booze

In Search of Vintage Spirits

By: Aaron Goldfarb
Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
Length: 10 hours

In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse—you name it—from estate sales, grandpa's liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a... Read more

Invitation to a Banquet

The Story of Chinese Food

By: Fuchsia Dunlop
Narrated by: Fuchsia Dunlop
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

The world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes.



Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved... Read more

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

A Memoir

By: Curtis Chin
Narrated by: Curtis Chin
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

“I loved Curtis Chin's memoir. Chin grew up in 1980s Detroit with the center of his world being his family's restaurant, Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine. One of six children and the son of immigrants, Chin's tight-knit family and community weathered social injustice, racism, and violence by providing a welcoming environment, delicious food, and open... Read more

Koshersoul

The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

By: Michael W. Twitty
Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food.In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the... Read more

National Dish

Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

By: Anya von Bremzen
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Financial Times, The Guardian, and BBC's The Food Programme

“Anya von Bremzen, already a legend of food writing and a storytelling inspiration to me, has done her best work yet. National Dish is a must-read for all those who believe in building longer tables where food is what bring us all together.” —José Andrés

“If... Read more

Raw Dog

The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“This is your smart, funny, acerbic, friend talking at you a mile a minute about their latest hyperfixation which, in this case, is hot dogs. This is a cross country travelogue steeped in meat-sweat and post-pandemic uncertainty with detours through such territory as gas station pickles and the politics of competitive eating. This is an... Read more

How to Butter Toast

Rhymes in a book that help you to cook

By: Tara Wigley
Narrated by: Tara Wigley & Yotam Ottolenghi
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

How to Butter Toast is the antidote to cookbook-overload. In this fun and entertaining recipe book without any recipes, Ottolenghi co-writer Tara Wigley equips you with rhymes and confidence to cook great food instinctively. Melted butter on hot toast and served up on a plate. ... Read more